The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog (also see update at bottom of blog)
September 1, 2008
Talk about skeletons in the Palin family closet!
They are just starting to tumble out.
When we last discussed the Palin pregnant teen daughter rumor, we said that we did not find any conclusive evidence that Sarah Palin was claiming her fifth child to be her own when it was actually her teen daughter's, who had been sort of missing from school for several months. We said our primary concern was with the judgment of the Palins in leaving Texas after the forty year old and then some Sarah Palin knew her bag of water had broken. Indeed, she went on to give a speech and then fly 8 hours home with her husband, an action -- at her age, while carrying a pre-diagnosed child with down's syndrome -- that was reckless and life endangering. [0] (She even by-passed hospitals in Anchorage to drive to a clinic in her hometown to deliver shortly thereafter. A high-risk decision.)
And we focused on the point that such dangerous decision-making was a bad sign for the person who would be the next in line to be president when the presidential candidate whom she is running with would be the oldest elected occupant of the Oval Office in history and has a history himself of recurring skin cancer.
The title of our alert the other day was, "Did Sarah Palin Endanger the Life of Her Fifth Child? Or is the Swirling Rumor True?" [0] (It got 112 reader comments. You should read them.)
Okay, now it is fittingly Labor Day (if you catch the double entendre) and the McCain-Palin campaign released a doozy of a news release. No, the rumors that Sarah Palin was pretending to cover up for her "no sex before marriage Christian fundamentalist" family credo by pretending to be the mother of her daughter's daughter weren't true, just scurrilous slanders on the family and daughter.
What is true is even more bizzarre. The McCain-Palin campaign are expressing disdain at all this "slander," so they revealed the Christian truth: Sarah Palin Says That There is No Truth to Her Teen Daughter Being Pregnant Out of Wedlock Last Year Because the Daughter in Question is Pregnant and Unmarried This Year. [1]
We thought that McCain appointed a vice presidential candidate to appeal to the religious right, but now we find that we've just entered into the middle of another hypocritical fundamentalist soap opera, only of the moose shooting family lifestyle kind. (McCain, according to CNN, knew of the unwed teen pregnancy in advance of his last-minute rushed choice of Palin. But watch for this "emerging" story to take a few more twists before it's put to bed, so to speak.)
There's not a lot of outdoor or indoor movie theaters up there in Alaska, so it's probably not surprising that young people turn to sex, which they do everywhere anyway.
But when you got a fundamentalist hot mama preaching the gospel and abstinence -- and who seems to have had a shot gun wedding of her own -- you know why McCain might regard Palin as his spritual soulmate (besides the fact that he can't seem to stop nervously staring at her breasts -- just watch the You-Tube of his announcing her as VP candidate).
It's because we are going to have four more years of stuff-it-down your throat moral hypocrisy if these two are elected, not to mention a president who is made for the 18th Century and a Vice President who is apparently a supporter of the Alaskan Seccessionist Party. [2] Not too mention that we will be saddled with the brainless Republican thinking that believes you shoot down rumors of your unwed teen daughter having been pregnant by revealing that she is pregnant now and still unwed.
Do you remember the song "Harper Valley PTA"? [3] Well that's who we've got running on the Republican ticket:
I want to tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widowed wife Who had a teenage daughter who attended Harper Valley Junior High Well her daughter came home one afternoon and didn't even stop to play She said, "Mom, I got a note here from the Harper Valley P.T.A."
The note said, "Mrs. Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high It's reported you've been drinking and a-runnin' 'round with men and going wild And we don't believe you ought to be bringing up your little girl this way" It was signed by the secretary, Harper Valley P.T.A.
Well, it happened that the P.T.A. was gonna meet that very afternoon They were sure surprised when Mrs. Johnson wore her mini-skirt into the room And as she walked up to the blackboard, I still recall the words she had to say She said, "I'd like to address this meeting of the Harper Valley P.T.A."
Well, there's Bobby Taylor sittin' there and seven times he's asked me for a date Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lot of ice whenever he's away And Mr. Baker, can you tell us why your secretary had to leave this town? And shouldn't widow Jones be told to keep her window shades all pulled completely down?
Well, Mr. Harper couldn't be here 'cause he stayed too long at Kelly's Bar again And if you smell Shirley Thompson's breath, you'll find she's had a little nip of gin Then you have the nerve to tell me you think that as a mother I'm not fit Well, this is just a little Peyton Place and you're all Harper Valley hypocrites.
Okay, one thing that we can be sure of is that this seedy side story to the Palin announcement is far from over. The McCain campaign appointed her in such a hurry, they hardly vetted anything beyond her photograph.
So as more spills out, when will America wake up and realize that we deserve good sound judgment and good policy decisions, not the Republican ticket version of the "Harper Valley PTA"?
The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog
BuzzFlash Update: Yes, the right wing is now telling us that this is a "private matter," but they didn't think that about Bill Clinton's blow job. We are so sick of their "abstinence" hypocrisy and damnation for sex before marriage, but if you pass their "Christ" test all is forgiven. They are like a Biblical "members only" club of dishonesty and arrogance.
The real miscarriage of justice and motherhood here is that, according to the McCain/Palin news release, Palin --obviously-- and McCain knew about this before Palin was announced as the GOP VP Candidate. Now take a 17 year old adolesecent girl from a small town in Alaska who is pregnant out of wedlock and her mother throws her to the wolves by accepting the VP spot knowing that inevitably word of her pregnancy would leak out. We suppose that makes Palin a noble mother in fundamentalist circles, but it is just cruel to Bristol who bears no shame other than that her mother chose her own ambition over the privacy of her daughter.
Yes, people should be allowed their private lives, but Sarah Palin knew she was exposing her daughter to embarrasment and ridicule that she doesn't deserve when her mother sought and accepted the VP nomination. That is not a mother that I would like to have. I would want want one who would protect me from such exposure, not seek it. Unless Palin was planning on hiding Bristol for another four months, the secret was going to be known sooner or later. And now a 17-year-old is at the center of a national story that we can be sure Bristol would rather have been confined to her frontier city in Alaska.
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